Sporting a Winning Attitude!
by TDavid, TDScripts.com
I had to
chuckle this morning when my son was telling his mother, "I don't want to wear
the Seahawks shirt to school, they suck right now." After gently correcting him
that she didn't think it was very nice to say that the Seahawks "suck", I
politely corrected her by indicating that right now at 1 win and 5 losses, yes,
they do suck.
I asked him what team he wanted to wear and he said the
Green Bay Packers who are out to a 6 wins and 1 loss start. The cheeseheads are
hot, led by quarterback Brett Favre who has started 164 consecutive games, an
incredible NFL record and accomplishment. He got his knee banged up in the last
game and had to be taken out for the first time in a game in like 2 years and
there was doubt that he might break his streak of consecutive starts. As I was
driving around yesterday I heard on the radio that, as you might have guessed,
he'll be starting the next game. The truth is that Brett wanted to go back into
the game when he was still injured.
Got to love a guy with that kind of
attitude and drive. A true winner.
Business and sports have a lot to
do with each other. If you have a winning attitude, winning people on your
team, a scorching desire to never give up, you are going to win more than you
are going to lose. If you mope around and fight among each other, complain
ceaselessly on various boards about how you can't get any signups, new Visa
regulations, getting screwed by someone or something, then you are inviting
negativity into your domain (pardon the pun).
A little venting once in
awhile is fine, but if you can find a positive solution for your venting, it's
always better than using a negative one. Consider setting up your own venting
outlet. I have a venting outlet and it's called C-Munk
http://c-munk.scriptschool.com/ Maybe you've heard of C-Munk at Script School,
because he is our mascot. C-Munk hates almost everything, and yet still has a
unique love for life. C-Munk's views on the world are usually so dramatically
negative that they become humorous. So what positive does all that bottled,
overdriven negativity in a helium-type voice (attempt to) do? Make someone
smile. It's a positive, and satirical way to get rid of tension. Sometimes it
helps to have some sort of comic relief when you are dealing with technology
and scripting issues. So create your own negative energy outlet whether it be
music, sports, whatever and exhale.
Just get rid of that negative
energy before it swirls around and engulfs you.
Positive energy, now
how do you get ahold of that? That's the key. Finding an area to interact with
webmasters which is professional and positive. Some will say that these type of
boards and places are boring, and perhaps they are boring to those who find
pleasure in pain, negativity, but I can assure you that a day spent with people
moaning, groaning and fighting is less likely to make you more productive.
Negativity saps the lifeforce inside all of us. So find folks with positive
energy. Usually people who are newer to the business and not as likely to have
developed unflinching ideas and ideals. Seek out those newbieboards and read
what the newbies are saying. Their energy about writing html, coming up with
new ideas are contagious.
And a word on streaks like the one Brett
Favre has going. I'm sure he didn't set out to start a streak, he just had an
attitude that he wanted to play every chance he got to play. Do you have an
attitude like this? Do you want to work every *work* day? Note that I didn't
say work every day. I don't believe that winners work every day, winners work
hard, play hard and rest hard. They know that rest is just as important to
staying fresh and helping them win. Losers will work all the time or in
gigantic spurts of activity and then get burned out or sick so that they must
take time off. Winners pace themselves, plan and organize, where losers
typically do not.
So you too can start a streak by doing something
consistent every day. Maybe this is posting to your favorite messageboard one
time every work day. Maybe it is attending every Internext convention. Maybe it
is building a free site or AVS, whatever it is, a streak starts by doing
something consistently. Again, that's what winners do, they do things
consistently, positively.
You've probably heard or read that winners
never quit. I think winners will see failures and take that as experience.
There clearly comes a time when energy in a project needs to be refocused, but
quitting altogether? Losers accept that they can't do something, they believe
it's impossible for them to get past the obstacles set before them. Winners and
losers both dream, it's just that the former refuses to deny that dreams do
come true.
Take a cup of your favorite beverage and pull away
periodically and honestly, objectively analyze your business. Get out a pen and
paper and make two columns. Label one "Positive" and the other "Negative" and
then seriously list the specific things you are doing on a daily basis in your
business. When you are done creating this list, try and think of ways to turn
the negatives into positives. The time-wasting, wheel spinning projects into
time productive, move forward projects.
Let's say you write: "not
making money" -- that's too broad. It is better to write something like:
"amateur tgp galleries I'm building aren't generating sales" Then you say to
yourself, hmmm, ok, where do I find out more about amateurs? Do I know anybody
who actually runs an amateur site? Where can I ask someone who runs these type
sites to look over my galleries and generate feedback about them? Do my sites
appeal to those who are looking for amateur content?
Turn a negative on
your list into a positive by attacking the problem and finding the
solution.
The innocence of children is often wiser than adults being
politically correct in that they say exactly what they feel without any idea
that their honesty is anything but reality. When my son said the Seahawks suck,
he was being as honest and factual as he could be. He didn't want to walk
around school and advertise a team that were losers. Perhaps that's brutal if
you are a Seahawk fan, but that's how the majority of people behave; they don't
want to associate with losers.
I'm absolutely certain that the only way
the Seahawks will get better is to develop a winning attitude as a foundation.
It isn't going to happen as long as the coach yells at them and they fight
among each other. The only difference between my son and them as far as
uniforms go is that they don't have a choice -- they must wear the
uniform.
We don't have a choice either -- we are our websites, our
respective businesses. By making sure that we give off more positive than
negative energy, we increase the likelihood that good things can and will
happen, and that we'll develop a winning record.
TDavid is co-owner, programmer and
webmaster for several sites devoted to scripting including his own
TDScripts.com. Every Friday from 2-4pm PT / 5-7pm ET you
can catch his live radio show:
Script School Radio. His most recent website:
TDPrograms.com deals with developing unique desktop/server
software solutions.
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